Chris Evans started his Permaculture experience in Nepal in 1988. Based in the remote western district of Jajarkot, he quickly realised the shortfalls of international development and so when he came across the concept of Permaculture, he embarked on an ambitious alternative. Starting with a local friend, £500 and an acre of degraded farmland in the district centre of Jajarkot he founded a demonstration and training centre which grew organically into the Jajarkot Permaculture Programme (JPP), a diverse array of projects spanning 4 districts, 65 villages, 8 resource centres (working farms), 120 staff and volunteers, and a membership of 12,000 farmers.

He stayed with the JPP until 2001 when he started to work with community groups which were spawned from the original programme. In 2002 he started work with a UK charity directing their Nepal programmes, working in the district of Humla, one of the remotest and most challenging areas of the country. In 2008 he started working independently with a third-generation off-shoot of JPP, the Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) and other local NGOs in Nepal. Beside his grass-roots experience in Nepal, Chris has taught permaculture in UK, India, U.S.A. and Mexico. He is currently a director of Designed Visions, a permaculture education and consultancy partnership based in UK, and provides PDCs, PC Intro course, Edible Forest Garden courses and Teacher Training courses as well as consulting with those wishing to bring PC into their lives and onto their land. He is also a UK assessment level tutor for apprentices working towards their diploma in applied permaculture design. Chris lives at Waterloo Farm in north Herefordshire with his partner Looby and daughters Shanti and Teya. There, he is co-owner/director of Applewood Permaculture Centre, a demonstration, training and resource centre promoting regenerative landscapes, livelihoods and lifestyles.